Word: stressful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...study was not designed to tease out specific factors, Tindle proposes several potential explanations, which she hopes to validate in further trials: optimistic people have more friends and a larger social network on which they can rely during crises; they also tend to cope better on their own with stress, a risk factor that has been associated with high blood pressure, heart disease and early death in previous studies. It isn't entirely clear how optimists manage stress so well, but it may have something to do with their physiological makeup - genes and metabolic processes that keep them from panicking...
...want to stress that I will not pay for this bid.' CAI MINGCHAO, the winning bidder on the $36 million statues and a member of China's Lost Cultural Relics Foundation, saying he sabotaged the auction out of a sense of patriotic duty...
...secret that in a down economy, people don't want to buy a house before they can sell their old one. The stress of paying one mortgage is bad enough--the thought of having to shoulder two monthly mega-payments? [Insert heart attack here.] But when the real estate stars align, a pair of frustrated sellers can switch homes with each other. While there are few tax advantages or closing-costs savings, house-swapping promises the peace of mind that comes from unloading your house at the exact time you buy another. Although such trades are still rare, thousands...
...extremely difficult decision. Two weeks of makeup work is a daunting prospect for the average Harvard student. The other option—choosing to remain in the course—entails being trapped in a class that he or she dislikes. Given the gravity of this decision and the stress accompanying it, the administration should not be invoking a penalty that skews the student’s choice...
...task force meeting in early February, Chief University Planner Kathy A. Spiegelman said that it was unlikely the University would file an updated IMP in early 2009 as planned, due to financial stress...